Roland Barthes Quotes

Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.

Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

jealousy is the direct result of self-betrayal.

Jealousy endlessly eats through my mind, and jealously endlessly makes me be unkind.

Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

I don't like being jealous.

jealousy is conceived only in insecurity and must be nourished in fear.

Fear and Guilt are the only enemies of man.

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.

I’ve never been jealous before I met you, it burns, luv. Like silver through my veins. Some nights, watching you with other men on your jobs, I think it will drive me mad. (Bones)

I thought that jealousy was an idea. It isn't. It's a pain. But I didn't feel as they do in a Broadway melodrama. I didn't want to kill anybody. I just wanted to die.

Mine was the unbearable jealousy a cultured pearl must feel toward a genuine one. Or can there be such a thing in this world as a man who is jealous of the woman who loves him, precisely because of her love?

Staying with him. Letting him touch you, hold you, GOD. It's eating me alive. You may be keeping Sawyer from hating me but you're only making me hate him

jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.

Guilt is always jealous

I had to wrestle daily with both my inadequacy and my uncontrollable jealousy. I didn't want to kill her, but hoped someone else might do the job for me.

I don't need more pain in my life. Why did I invite it in? Do I have to feel pain to believe I feel anything at all?

great. now i was starting to get jealous of myself.